What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt… — Iqbal Quadir Copy Share Image
Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics… — Swanee Hunt Copy Share Image
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may not have all you could wish for, but you still have more than you deserve. Your circumstances are not what… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability… — Paul L Wachtel Copy Share Image
When we make decisions, about eating or anything else, with an attitude of kindness and acceptance toward ourselves, with awareness of what… — Cheri Huber Copy Share Image
I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager… — Amitabh Bachchan Copy Share Image
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
We have said we will never collapse, never ever. We may have our droughts, our poverty, but as a people we shall… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
“I hadn't realized what a transformation had taken place while I had been in Uganda, the spiritual richness I had experienced in… — Katie J. Davis Copy Share Image
God sends us the poor to try us… And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“The whole world will stand still to give you a way to the top if you practice the rule of ten thousand… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated. — Benjamin Mkapa Copy Share Image
“Poverty among naturalized immigrants—that is, those who have become U.S. citizens—is lower than poverty among native-born Americans.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
FORMA PAUPERIS. [Latin] In the character of a poor person - a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the… — James Payn Copy Share Image
We now see numerous examples of brands working together to address issues such as environmental degradations, climate control, pollution, poverty and disease. — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been… — Vijay Singh Copy Share Image
I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The… — Richard Glover Copy Share Image
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The care work force, the people who care for the elderly and disabled in the country and the people who principally provide… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons,… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they’d be mean even if they were rich.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
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